![]() The death of the second-to-last member of the acknowledged group plunges her into an extended recollection of her own experience, which constitutes this “first Korean novel devoted exclusively to the subject of the comfort women.” But an official count is just that, as Kim Soom reminds us with the character of One Lef t‘s 93-year-old protagonist P’unggil, a former comfort woman who never registered herself as such with the government. Six months later, University of Washington press published an English translation of a Korean novel that imagines the future, inevitable and surely not far off, when that number falls to one. Her passing reduced to eighteen the official count of surviving Korean “comfort women,” who as girls were kept in sexual servitude to the Japanese military during the Second World War. ![]() ![]() When a 92-year-old woman by the name of Lee died at last year, all of South Korea took notice. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women. ![]()
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